Roy Exum
I’ve got to do something to adjust my sense of humor but fear there is not a big enough wrench. Rasmea Yousef Odeh, who is a naturalized American citizen from Jordan, was one of the principal figures in January’s Women’s March on Washington and had an equal starring role in the most recent “Day Without Women” protests in America.
I’m all for equal rights for women yet I was appalled that our nation has stooped so low that suddenly our sweethearts are boldly displaying graphic posters showing female reproductive parts, have 12-year-old little girls flashing signs that scream “P**** Power” and shout spittle-flecked profanities at police officers.
The world we now live in is repulsed when Trump uses what most-certainly-is-not “locker room talk” but it’s just fine for a female college student to make a 3-D version of her fallopian tubes to wear as a necklace as she traipses down a street in just her bra and panties? What causes a pretty girl to act like that? The Women’s March on Washington went far over the decency grid and Rasmea Odeh, age 69, was a big reason.
Get this: About a month ago she and some other esteemed feminists wrote an essay in The Guardian that spouted, “In our view, it is not enough to oppose Trump and his aggressively misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic and racist policies. We also need to target the ongoing neo-liberal attack on social provision and labor rights.”
They are even calling themselves “the new wave of militant feminist struggle” and – guess what – truer words were never coined as when William Shakespeare once penned in Hamlet, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
Here’s what happened: Some folks got to sniffing around and Rasmea had indeed left a trail to her morbid past. Kyle Smith, a writer for the New York Post, notes there is a big difference in the words “militant feminist” and “peaceful feminist” and this is where it gets so funny I have to pick myself up off the floor. Kyle writes:
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“Odeh, a Palestinian, was convicted in Israel in 1970 for her part in two terrorist bombings, one of which killed two students while they were shopping for groceries. She spent 10 years in prison for her crimes. She then managed to become a U.S. citizen in 2004 by lying about her past (great detective work, INS: Next time, use Google) but was subsequently convicted, in 2014, of immigration fraud for the falsehoods.
“However, she won the right to a new trial (set for this spring) by claiming she had been suffering from PTSD at the time she lied on her application. Oh, and in her time as a citizen, she worked for a while as an ObamaCare navigator.”
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Heaven have mercy! Posttraumatic Stress Disorder! Yep, a 10-year-stretch in an Israeli prison will do that every time, especially if you hail from Palestine. You can’t make this stuff up! And the article in The Guardian that espoused “the new wave of militant feminists?” The New York Post writer checked into the other authors and guess whose names he found? Here’s another excerpt from Kyle Smith’s magical accounting:
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Another co-author, Angela Davis, is a Stalinist professor and longtime supporter of the Black Panthers. Davis is best known for being acquitted in a 1972 trial after three guns she bought were used in a courtroom shootout that resulted in the death of a judge. She celebrated by going to Cuba.
A third co-author, Tithi Bhattacharya, praised Maoism in an essay for the International Socialist Review, noting that Maoists are “on the terrorist list of the U.S. State Department, Canada, and the European Union,” which she called an indication that “Maoists are back in the news and by all accounts they are fighting against all the right people.” You know you’re dealing with extremism when someone admits to hating Canada.”
The International Women’s Strike is meant to be a grassroots affair, with womensmarch.com promising more information about how to participate in local protests across the U.S. Women around the country are being urged to walk off their jobs and join a demonstration near them.
According to The Guardian piece, women should spend their day “blocking roads, bridges, and squares, abstaining from domestic, care and sex work” and “boycotting” pro-Trump businesses. Also every woman is supposed to wear red in solidarity.
The bristling tone of the manifesto and its call for a “militant” uprising are yet another indicator that liberals are increasingly willing to justify violence in the name of opposing Trump. After the Berkeley campus erupted in flames and violence to protest the planned appearance of Milo Yiannopoulos, many progressive activists took to Twitter to cheer them on. (NOTE: The rioters caused $100,000 in damage to the Berkley student center and another $500,000 in damages to the downtown area yet not one person was arrested.)
Hollywood stars Debra Messing and Sarah Silverman both tweeted their support, with Messing saying, “RESISTANCE WORKS” and Silverman ranting: “WAKE UP & JOIN THE RESISTANCE. ONCE THE MILITARY IS W US FASCISTS GET OVERTHROWN. MAD KING & HIS HANDLERS GO BYE BYE.”
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No, let me tell you who is really going bye-bye. Rasmea Odeh’s defense team has just copped a plea with the Department of Justice that the feminist terrorist will be promptly stripped of her citizenship and deported from our Land of Milk and Honey where she has caused her latest stir.
I’m sure she’ll be a big hit back home in Jordan, “blocking, roads, bridges and squares,” and that all of our female snowflakes will be able to explain why they made idiots out of themselves, just because the devil told them to do it. You simply can’t make this stuff up. That’s why I think it is so outrageously funny.
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